Using 4G LTE to Connect & Enhance Digital Signage

With the convergence of wired and wireless connectivity, and with the knowledge that many consumers still prefer to shop inside the store, retailers are boldly moving into the future by providing an increasingly digital shopper experience.

Today’s connected digital signage often features dynamic content, opportunities for real-time interaction, and actionable analytics. With 4G LTE, digital signage also is easier to deploy and more reliable, flexible, scalable, and secure than ever before.

As much as any component of a modern-day retail store, digital signage is a cost-effective and crucial tool for both enterprises and customers.

Join Cradlepoint’s Ken Hosac for an exclusive live webinar on Wednesday, May 18, at 12 p.m. ET/17.00 BST to learn how retailers are using software-defined 4G LTE solutions for digital signage to increase revenue and improve ROI.

For virtually any enterprise, the number of sites, devices, vehicles, and people needing network access is rapidly growing. Digital transformation is affecting everyone from small, family-run businesses to large multi-national corporations. Thus, it is more important than ever to ensure your networks are secure, flexible, and dynamic enough to respond to ever-changing business needs and constantly emerging threats.

Join the Cradlepoint team for a live webinar on Oct. 25, 2017, about cloud security issues and trends that apply to modern businesses.

Enterprises are seeking ways to reduce the scope and complexity of securing their Network’s Edge. Data breaches can cost companies millions of dollars in reduced revenue, shareholder value, fines, and diminished brand loyalty.

IT managers concerned about their connected-network systems have turned to Parallel Networking to create application-specific networks to protect cardholder data while enabling customer engagement and improving operations.

Parallel Networking enables organizations with hundreds or thousands of distributed locations to enhance security and PCI Compliance at the Network’s Edge.

Join Cradlepoint for a webinar to learn about the benefits of Parallel Networking, real customer success examples, and best practices for greater security at the Elastic EdgeSM.

How do you ensure your organization’s data is protected — even over public Internet, with more devices and users than ever before needing connectivity? Create a Virtual Cloud Network that the public Internet doesn’t even know exists.

You can’t hack what you can’t see, which is why black cloud security through Software-defined Perimeter services is the best way to secure IoT devices that live on today’s Elastic Edge.

Join Josh Flinn, a principal solutions architect at Cradlepoint, for a live webinar on Sept. 28, 2017, as he explores how Cradlepoint’s NetCloud platform creates completely secure, private, invitation-only IoT networks in minutes.

There’s a lot of buzz among public safety agencies about the potential for FirstNet (First Responder Network Authority) and a nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN) to ensure first responders have optimal levels of operational capabilities during natural disasters and other emergencies.

AT&T has won the bid to build out this network, and states now have the opportunity to opt in or out. However, how it works today is a different story than what it will look like in the coming months and years. Other key factors to consider include Verizon’s announcement that it will build its own public safety network core.

Join David Rush, a senior product manager at Cradlepoint, for a live webinar on Sept. 21, 2017, as he explains and navigates FirstNet/Band 14 and other elements of the still-evolving public safety network landscape.

As the digital transformation in IT continues to create the need for an Elastic EdgeSM, traditional tethers to the central office have all but vanished. Physical boundaries continue to decrease in importance, and organizations of all types require constant and dependable in-vehicle connectivity to keep up with changing business imperatives.

Dependable mobile connectivity keeps vehicles on the road longer, helps enterprises better manage their fleets, and allows businesses and organizations to better serve their customers. Forward thinking IT and fleet managers in nearly every industry are implementing in-vehicle networks at a fraction of the cost and with less complexity. By taking advantage of cloud-managed, software-defined solutions, IT teams are evolving enterprise networks to reach improved productivity, reduce costs, and create operational efficiencies.

Join Cradlepoint for a live webinar on Wednesday, September 6, 2017, at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET to learn how networks on the move are staying always connected and protected.

From SD-WAN at branches and quick-serve restaurants to SD-Perimeter (SD-P) for the Internet of Things and remote employees, networks today need constant connectivity, mobility, cloud services and software-defined everything. The Elastic Edge of the network requires a secure, next-generation WAN that expands, contracts, and evolves at a moment’s notice.

Join Tyler Peterson and Matt Thueson of Cradlepoint for a live webinar on Aug. 16, 2017, to discuss use cases and success stories for SD-WAN, SD-P, and always-available LTE connectivity.

Join the Cradlepoint Product Management team to learn about these new updates to the Cradlepoint NetCloud Platform.

Cradlepoint updates key software elements to unify them under the NetCloud Services umbrella:
NetCloud OS: Router firmware is named and elevated as a key pillar of the NetCloud Platform
NetCloud Manager: Enterprise Cloud Manager, the single-pane-of-glass management service for all Cradlepoint solutions, is renamed NetCloud Manager
NetCloud Engine: A Software-Defined Perimeter service offering dark cloud security

When combined with Cradlepoint routers, this integrated platform of flexible, extensible, and rapidly deployable applications enables an entirely new way to easily build, secure, control, and manage end-to-end private networks in the cloud.

Cradlepoint continues to invest in NetCloud Engine to bring the advantages of dark cloud security (or of a software-defined perimeter) to customers who need to integrate IoT connections into corporate networks.

Technology is improving retail operations and enhancing the customer experience. The “Smart Store” has come to life with the rise of the Internet of Things, inspiring stores to adopt applications such as digital signage and IoT sensors.

Sign up for this webcast with Ken Hosac, Vice President at Cradlepoint, to learn more about how Smart Stores concepts are changing the dynamics of the shopping experience, creating new retail store standards, and how it’s all dependent upon a foolproof network connection.

At the Network’s Edge, the 24/7 need to connect people, places, and things to the WAN over wired and wireless internet broadband is shaping a new paradigm: the Elastic Edge. The Elastic Edge constantly expands, contracts, adapts, and evolves as business needs dictate. Wireless connectivity is essential to achieving this level of elasticity that today’s Connected Enterprise requires.

Join Ian Pennell, Cradlepoint CMO, on July 13, 2017, for a live webinar about the characteristics of the Elastic Edge — software-defined, policy-driven, and highly orchestrated to eliminate network complexity.

Attendees will learn about:

+ Challenges and opportunities in network infrastructure
+ How wireless connectivity and related strategies enhance network infrastructure
+ How Network-as-a-Service expands connections, capacity, and services when and where you need them

Today, businesses and organizations of all sizes — and from all industries — are challenged to extend their networks to more people, places, and things than ever. It’s also clear that legacy WANs — predominately based on wired, hardware-defined, and resource-intensive infrastructures — can’t keep pace with the rapidly changing needs of today’s lean and agile connected enterprise.

Join Cradlepoint’s Ian Pennell on June 22 for a live webinar about trends in enterprise WAN architectures. Learn what Cradlepoint’s recent State of the Network 2017 report revealed about LTE adoption, software-defined WAN, and more.

Today’s IoT topology is a hodge-podge of standards, communication mechanisms, software, and hardware.

Look at a typical home IoT environment that requires a unique hub for every IoT device. This results in complexity and interoperability challenges for widespread adoption and support. Sensors will continue to reduce in size, power, and cost but will remain constrained as to how many features one can bind into a small compute device. Communication standards at the Edge range from WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Zwave, Thread, ANT, and the list is growing. What is needed are smarter Edge devices that provide the services of communication routing, security, aggregation, and resiliency.

Join this webcast with Perry Lea, Principal Architect and IoT Strategist, for insight into the “wild west” of IoT interoperability, recommendations and predictions on how smart gateways will evolve in the near future.

An ACG Analysis, Research Brief and Webinar Developed in Partnership with RCR Wireless. Concurrent innovations in 5G radio access and in network control and application delivery using virtualization and the cloud at multiple layers of the ‘stack’ will bring services to market not feasible in the past. This fortunate combination makes the arrival of 5G especially inspiring. Evaluating several of the more impactful new radio access innovations, the way they benefit from virtualization and the cloud in managing the network and and delivering new applications, and examining the benefits these enhancements bring to stakeholders in the 5G and IIoT ecosystems is the focus of this research.

One area of innovations in 5G and IIoT is to support a massive scale of connectivity for ‘things’ for commercial and industrial use. In many cases use of low power access technologies such as LoRa is integral to supporting new applications at scale. In other cases innovative data distribution mechanisms such as Coordinated Multi-Point communications (or CoMP) to support the use of diverse types of end-stations are crucial to bringing the versatility, efficiency and scale to IIoT that some applications need. In parallel support for highly reliable and ultra-low latency communication for applications in transportation, health care, public safety and other vertical sectors will harness new frequency bands and transmission management techniques to accomplish their functions.

This research brief and webinar from ACG Research will examine the symbiosis between 5G radio access innovations and the technologies of virtualization and the cloud for delivering IIoT at scale in ways that have not been possible in the past.

Digital transformation is driving the increased deployment of cloud-based applications, a mobile workforce, and IoT. A new WAN architecture is required to support this digital transformation and deliver reliable, secure connectivity to people, places, and things.

In a live webinar on May 24, 2017, Lee Doyle of Doyle Research and Todd Krautkremer of Cradlepoint will discuss the technologies enabling the next-generation WAN, including SD-WAN, Software-Defined Perimeter (SD-P), and LTE.

With 5G rapidly climbing the hype cycle toward the peak of inflated expectations, many organizations are asking the same question: “Where does 5G stand today, and how long before it can help my business?”

Carriers in the U.S. are not only talking about it, but claiming their trials are ongoing and deployments are coming soon — in many cases, years earlier than had been thought possible. In reality, 5G has a limited, powerful use case today, but can reach its exceptional potential within the next couple years.

At 11am PT / 2pm ET on April 26, 2017, join Cradlepoint’s David Rush and Ken Rehbehn of 451 Research to explore the 5G reality today and how 5G can help people and businesses in 2018 and beyond.

Cradlepoint is the global leader in cloud-based network solutions for connecting people, places, and things over wired and wireless broadband.

At RSA 2017, Cradlepoint SVP for Emerging Technologies Todd Kelly discusses the influx of the Internet of Things, and how a Software-Defined Perimeter approach can foster single-pane-of-glass management of networks, applications, and workloads.

In March 2017 Cradlepoint is enhancing its SD-WAN and Extensibility Platform with the release of Firmware 6.3, which extends and enhances our SD-WAN offering for People (remote and mobile workers), Places (branch offices, vehicles, pop-up venues, etc.) and Things (M2M and IoT).

Cradlepoint will also be launching new enhancements to Enterprise Cloud Manager (ECM), part of the NetCloud Platform, with Client Analytics. New LAN Client Analytics enhance network visibility and provide insights to what is connected to your network and how your network is being used.

Jeff Mucci, CEO & Head of Industry Insights and Enterprise IoT at RCR Wireless interviews Lindsay Notwell, VP of Worldwide Carrier Operations and Ken Hosac, VP of Business Development at Cradlepoint on the state of 5G, the proliferation of IoT, and the digital transformation in networking on the show floor from Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, Spain.

Cradlepoint is the leading provider of cloud-based wired and wireless WAN networking solutions for Distributed and Mobile Enterprises. Cradlepoint solutions provide the strongest wireless and broadband performance while delivering proven network system interoperability. Cradlepoint’s broad family of high-performance router platforms are designed for deployment in mission-critical applications that require 24x7 connectivity. With both integrated wireless and wired WAN and non-integrated versions, our solutions are ideal for distributed and mobile operations and emerging industries that require either remote connectivity or multi-WAN redundancy. Cradlepoint’s NetCloud platform enables enterprise network administrators to easily create, monitor, manage, and maintain their distributed network running on different WAN sources from a single location.

Founded in 2006, Cradlepoint has shipped over 1.4 million routing platforms and offers solutions certified and promoted by major worldwide carriers. Cradlepoint is a privately held company with headquarters in Boise, Idaho.